This was a awesome and very informative. I’ve lived in the Yakima valley and didn’t know all this had happened. I’d like to learn more about it. Thank you
Thank you it means a lot! Spread the word! I feel like not enough people know of these early wars of the Washington Territory. I figured it was too important to not have a video on it!
Good job! I would love to suggest you use "Yakima Country" or consider thinking of the American land claims as territorial disputes between two (slash many more) sovereign countries. That is what those treaties were supposed to be doing, extinguishing rights to the lands Americans called "dibs" on I unfortunately do now know how Yakimas call their country or I would offer up a better term (think Scotland instead of Scottish Clans' Lands) Good job, though! Keep up these videos, keep learning!
This is great work. I'm wondering if I could use parts of this series for a documentary (mostly on WA state)? This (leftisbest) channel is goof around inside-joke stuff but the docu isn't. Anyway thanks for the upload.
Thankyou for sharing. One concern is the mispronunciatuon of a lot of the local names. I don't know how to phonetically spell them but I grew up in Yakima and my family are from the Yakama nation.
Love the video and the information but I cringe when I hear you pronounce Kamiakins name wrong. Jo N. Miles put a book out called Kamiakin Country it's a good book.
Yeah.. I'm not from the Pacific Northwest so I tried to be very careful on the pronunciations. I went to websites to try to find standard versions. Few have corrected me but every once and a while they come up and I just feel BAD! haha
I shared it on my facebook brotha and all my fellow Yakama's. They liked how informative it was. Sincerely good job. There is little about the Yakama tribe like this.
@@aaronwhitefoot WOW! Thank you that seriously means so much! I worked for months to get these videos made and I'm so happy it's hitting the subject audience! I hope it spreads word and gains some traction because there are SO many conflicts between the US and Native Tribes that are not taught in schools. I hope this brings a great sense of identity to your people because in a great many ways it shaped your world today. Thank you!
Wow that's my 5th great grandfather who you called Yellowbird.He has different names but most people don't have a clue about this history. 🙂 Very cool to see someone knows this history, besides me because it's my Ancestry. 🙂
As a native of this area. Your point of view is debatable. Mispronounced names is considered a insult. No number lost counts for natives in your presentation. Kind of a bias report. The stone at old Yakima gap. Union Gap now. Has two historical stones down from Hoptowit cemetery. Tell two different points of view. Free speech being what it may... I thank you for your presentation...
Do you ever search for old relics via metal detector or plot maps for old dump sites and privy's? Just asking because you seem to have alot of great information. I live in naches and always looking for places to get permission to search.
I actually was an archaeologist for a while, but I looked for 'pre-historics' instead of 'historics' which is what you'd find with your metal detector. I have no doubt you'd have a chance of finding something around the sites of these battlefields, and I'm sure there have been many who have done it before you! lol I'm one of those 'Indiana Jones' types who believes findings should be mapped and put in museums, but that's just me!
Could this be why yakima wa felt kinda eriee or something like that? Anyone felt that way goin there, I was in cle elum for a bit a went to yakima once or twice I think, only once I'm sure went around town to a couple places an headed out back to cle elum
I’m from there. Yes, It seems eerie sometimes. Especially at night towards the foothills or the preserved Forts like Fort Simcoe. The whole area is very sacred and should be respected.
@@lisag2684 interestin, the place seemed nice but it felt like there was kinda a stillness or some feel like that there, I was staying in my old van back some years an was around in Washington was mostly in cle elum but went to yakima a few times, people seemed alright there didn't really commune with people though
@@lisag2684 it's cool you are from there, it's kinda crazy to me seeing all that open land around there, I'm from Michigan an am back in michigan now so it's pretty different from there to here
@@nathaniel.7172 I grew up there but I live in western Washington now. I’ve always felt a little uneasy with the crime and weird negative energy. There’s definitely some kind of haunting going on there. I was generationally raised there because of the large Mexican population from the 1940s agricultural boom. I visit but don’t plan on moving back.
@@lisag2684 it's interesting to hear your views an being from there, cool your still in Washington, its a nice place out that way, an to hear some history of there, yea I guess it kinda looked like there could be crime around there some parts I was, actually felt like a cop was watchin me made me feel uneasy hehe
I use to live there from 1974(11yrs old) to 1998(35yrs old). 24 years of my young life and had the best times of my life being pacific northwest, I am native from the Navajo nation and did about anything from fishing the ocean to climbing Mt. Adams. Became a professional Frisbee athlete from freestyle to disc golf along with becoming an artist. That state is my 2nd home and still have great memories and energy I share to others wondering why I'm positive and one sarcastic funny dude... 😁
No - it's even worse than that. Stevens was a megalomaniac drunk, and you mischaracterize Leschi. Stevens appointed Leschi and other "leaders" and signatories with fancy pieces of paper when no such political structure existed, then shamed Leschi, among others, and anyone else who would dare disagree with or challenge the contracts of adhesion he was imposing without actual authority - on people who had no agents with authority to bind them - on terms that violated our own explicit policies - and that derived from a 15th-century edict by a Catholic pope, by ripping up those same pieces of paper in intentional hungover temper tantrums. Then he (Stevens) got himself killed leading a countercharge at the Second Battle of Bull Run, I think. See below for Stevens's killing and murder of Leschi and other insane lawlessness. Washington State's Supreme Court formally (though extra-judicially, because they didn't exist at the time, so a jurisdictional issue) acquitted Leschi and acknowledged his killing and wrongful death by the territorial government (Stevens, who was a mama's boy) in the late 20th century. Stevens jailed settlers (colonists) who refused to wage war on peaceful native people, then jailed a judge who refused to jail the colonists, and the feds had to call him (Stevens) off - real Alexander Haigh/Colonel Kurtz stuff. Stevens also murdered Leschi - hung him illegally after at least one acquittal for "murders" during war time when the record showed both that he wasn't there and that there were open hostilities. The Nisqually have a Leschi high school. See above for Leschi's acquittal.
Before watching this, I read about it on Wikipedia. But Wikipedia left out the rape of the woman as to the cause of Kamiakin's anger resulting in Agent Bolon's murder. Wikipedia made it look like Kamiakin just murdered Bolon without cause. With that said, I'm curious why Kamiakin chose to kill Agent Bolon who was merely trying to get the facts together for his report. If Kamiakin was a Just man he would've hunted down the Rapists themselves at the prospectors claim and killed them instead of the BIA Agent.
These are matters one should not put labels on. One of them Gods gift to women, started a war. And it did not stop after treaty either. Peace loving people of the earth, till your trust is broken. That is hard to get back in any forum.
This was a awesome and very informative. I’ve lived in the Yakima valley and didn’t know all this had happened. I’d like to learn more about it.
Thank you
Wtf, there is a sign right outside Union Gap that explains this and Wikipedia exists.
AJ Splawns book Kamiakin the last hero of the Yakimas is an incredible book about our valley.
I'm Yakama enrolled and this is what I was looking for, good job and thanks !
Thank you it means a lot!
Spread the word! I feel like not enough people know of these early wars of the Washington Territory. I figured it was too important to not have a video on it!
You should write a book on this.
Your narration is quite good. However the background music is bombastic and there are many misproundications.
Good job! I would love to suggest you use "Yakima Country" or consider thinking of the American land claims as territorial disputes between two (slash many more) sovereign countries. That is what those treaties were supposed to be doing, extinguishing rights to the lands Americans called "dibs" on
I unfortunately do now know how Yakimas call their country or I would offer up a better term (think Scotland instead of Scottish Clans' Lands)
Good job, though! Keep up these videos, keep learning!
I'm tribal and from Washington and I would like to see us dominated the land once again
Bro turn the music off
My Great great grandpa Jim Wahkiakus.
This is great work. I'm wondering if I could use parts of this series for a documentary (mostly on WA state)? This (leftisbest) channel is goof around inside-joke stuff but the docu isn't. Anyway thanks for the upload.
Thankyou for sharing. One concern is the mispronunciatuon of a lot of the local names. I don't know how to phonetically spell them but I grew up in Yakima and my family are from the Yakama nation.
Love the video and the information but I cringe when I hear you pronounce Kamiakins name wrong. Jo N. Miles put a book out called Kamiakin Country it's a good book.
Yeah.. I'm not from the Pacific Northwest so I tried to be very careful on the pronunciations.
I went to websites to try to find standard versions.
Few have corrected me but every once and a while they come up and I just feel BAD! haha
I shared it on my facebook brotha and all my fellow Yakama's. They liked how informative it was. Sincerely good job. There is little about the Yakama tribe like this.
@@aaronwhitefoot WOW! Thank you that seriously means so much!
I worked for months to get these videos made and I'm so happy it's hitting the subject audience!
I hope it spreads word and gains some traction because there are SO many conflicts between the US and Native Tribes that are not taught in schools. I hope this brings a great sense of identity to your people because in a great many ways it shaped your world today. Thank you!
@@2Wheels1Compass yup, keep up the good job.
Wow that's my 5th great grandfather who you called Yellowbird.He has different names but most people don't have a clue about this history. 🙂 Very cool to see someone knows this history, besides me because it's my Ancestry. 🙂
I'm much honored to have a descendant comment on my video about him :)
It seems like he tried to do the right thing at the wrong time. :(
As a native of this area. Your point of view is debatable. Mispronounced names is considered a insult. No number lost counts for natives in your presentation. Kind of a bias report.
The stone at old Yakima gap. Union Gap now. Has two historical stones down from Hoptowit cemetery. Tell two different points of view.
Free speech being what it may...
I thank you for your presentation...
The battle for Yakima was not a easy one I respect the Yakima worriors for what they did to try and keep their hunting and fishing grounds
Love these videos
Do you ever search for old relics via metal detector or plot maps for old dump sites and privy's? Just asking because you seem to have alot of great information. I live in naches and always looking for places to get permission to search.
I actually was an archaeologist for a while, but I looked for 'pre-historics' instead of 'historics' which is what you'd find with your metal detector. I have no doubt you'd have a chance of finding something around the sites of these battlefields, and I'm sure there have been many who have done it before you! lol
I'm one of those 'Indiana Jones' types who believes findings should be mapped and put in museums, but that's just me!
It’s Kah-Mai-ya-kun. Hes very important to the Yakama Nation and its neighbors.
Also - thank you for sharing the story. 🖤
I literally live in Yakima, so does that make me? Yakama
My god!! Back off the music!
Could this be why yakima wa felt kinda eriee or something like that? Anyone felt that way goin there, I was in cle elum for a bit a went to yakima once or twice I think, only once I'm sure went around town to a couple places an headed out back to cle elum
I’m from there. Yes, It seems eerie sometimes. Especially at night towards the foothills or the preserved Forts like Fort Simcoe. The whole area is very sacred and should be respected.
@@lisag2684 interestin, the place seemed nice but it felt like there was kinda a stillness or some feel like that there, I was staying in my old van back some years an was around in Washington was mostly in cle elum but went to yakima a few times, people seemed alright there didn't really commune with people though
@@lisag2684 it's cool you are from there, it's kinda crazy to me seeing all that open land around there, I'm from Michigan an am back in michigan now so it's pretty different from there to here
@@nathaniel.7172 I grew up there but I live in western Washington now. I’ve always felt a little uneasy with the crime and weird negative energy. There’s definitely some kind of haunting going on there. I was generationally raised there because of the large Mexican population from the 1940s agricultural boom. I visit but don’t plan on moving back.
@@lisag2684 it's interesting to hear your views an being from there, cool your still in Washington, its a nice place out that way, an to hear some history of there, yea I guess it kinda looked like there could be crime around there some parts I was, actually felt like a cop was watchin me made me feel uneasy hehe
who els is here for school?
Charles Totus jr from the yakama nation 509 1978 union gap Washington state said that
I live in Yakima
Hope you like it! Spread the word if you like?
Same
I use to live there from 1974(11yrs old) to 1998(35yrs old). 24 years of my young life and had the best times of my life being pacific northwest, I am native from the Navajo nation and did about anything from fishing the ocean to climbing Mt. Adams. Became a professional Frisbee athlete from freestyle to disc golf along with becoming an artist. That state is my 2nd home and still have great memories and energy I share to others wondering why I'm positive and one sarcastic funny dude... 😁
No - it's even worse than that. Stevens was a megalomaniac drunk, and you mischaracterize Leschi. Stevens appointed Leschi and other "leaders" and signatories with fancy pieces of paper when no such political structure existed, then shamed Leschi, among others, and anyone else who would dare disagree with or challenge the contracts of adhesion he was imposing without actual authority - on people who had no agents with authority to bind them - on terms that violated our own explicit policies - and that derived from a 15th-century edict by a Catholic pope, by ripping up those same pieces of paper in intentional hungover temper tantrums. Then he (Stevens) got himself killed leading a countercharge at the Second Battle of Bull Run, I think. See below for Stevens's killing and murder of Leschi and other insane lawlessness. Washington State's Supreme Court formally (though extra-judicially, because they didn't exist at the time, so a jurisdictional issue) acquitted Leschi and acknowledged his killing and wrongful death by the territorial government (Stevens, who was a mama's boy) in the late 20th century. Stevens jailed settlers (colonists) who refused to wage war on peaceful native people, then jailed a judge who refused to jail the colonists, and the feds had to call him (Stevens) off - real Alexander Haigh/Colonel Kurtz stuff. Stevens also murdered Leschi - hung him illegally after at least one acquittal for "murders" during war time when the record showed both that he wasn't there and that there were open hostilities. The Nisqually have a Leschi high school. See above for Leschi's acquittal.
Much of this is covered if you continue to watch Parts III, IV, and V of my Washington's Woes series.
Before watching this, I read about it on Wikipedia. But Wikipedia left out the rape of the woman as to the cause of Kamiakin's anger resulting in Agent Bolon's murder. Wikipedia made it look like Kamiakin just murdered Bolon without cause. With that said, I'm curious why Kamiakin chose to kill Agent Bolon who was merely trying to get the facts together for his report. If Kamiakin was a Just man he would've hunted down the Rapists themselves at the prospectors claim and killed them instead of the BIA Agent.
These are matters one should not put labels on. One of them Gods gift to women, started a war. And it did not stop after treaty either.
Peace loving people of the earth, till your trust is broken. That is hard to get back in any forum.
What an insult! Learn to say our Chief''S NAME
Snowflake Karen
@@loyaltoj567 Show some respect bro
Who you?